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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765 — Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive …
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LinkedIn: Jack S. Song and Natalie Christman
Mastodon: @lilithsaintcrow …, @hitext@typo.social, and @drahardja@sfba.social
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Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/offbeat, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/elonmusk
| Esther Crawford / @esthercrawford: |
Former Director of Product Management Esther Crawford on Twitter's culture of fear, Elon Musk's strengths and weaknesses, the sleeping bag incident, and more — Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company. I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in... [video]
More: The Information, Insider, and The Verge
Mastodon: @ben@werd.social. Twitter: @karaswisher, @benthompson, @tomhowardau, @arodericks, @rakeshlobster, @agoldmund, @lilly_smith48, @blader, @malaparte, @pitdesi, @eghosao, @joshconstine, @littlemissjacob, @edzitron, @stse, @julesterpak, @maileprmedia, @stevesi, @kidehen, @mikegehrke, @faizsays, and @sspencer_smb
Threads: @jordanroher and @hunterwalk
| Meta Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META up 7%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. — “We had a good quarter.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's Reality Labs reports Q2 $3.7B operating loss, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to investments in VR/AR and its ecosystem — - Meta's Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and augmented reality technologies …
More: The Information, TechCrunch, NBC 7 San Diego, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Blockworks, and Tech Startups
Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social. Twitter: @wholemarsblog, @jimcramer, @scobleizer, @ibogost, @mdbaccardax, @ibogost, @mikeisaac, @ldrogen, @metacriticcap, @thekantoarbot, @kingfazir, and @crusoniac
| Scott Nover / Quartz: |
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| Bloomberg: |
New rules approved by the SEC require publicly traded companies to file details of a cyberattack within four days of identifying that it has a material impact — - Delay possible if public safety or national security at risk — Some business groups argued that deadline was too short
More: U.S. Securities …, Reuters, The Register, CTV News, The Verge, Dark Reading, CSO, Neowin, CNBC, Reuters, The Record, Engadget, Nextgov/FCW, and ZyCrypto. Forums: r/technews
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models” — Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
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Forums: r/slatestarcodex and Slashdot
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Waymo says it will slow the development of autonomous trucking as it moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing — Waymo, the self-driving unit owned by Alphabet Inc., is slowing the development of autonomous trucking that's being done by its Via subsidiary.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts rolling out a new Xbox Home UI, offering more space for backgrounds and quick access to store, search, and settings, after 10 months of testing — Microsoft first started testing a new Xbox Home UI nearly a year ago, and the company is now ready to deliver it to all Xbox owners.
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Forums: r/xbox, r/Games, r/xboxone, r/XboxSeriesX, and r/XboxSeriesX
| CNN: |
US prosecutors ask a judge to detain Sam Bankman-Fried over witness tampering allegations, saying he leaked Caroline Ellison's personal writings to the NYT — New York CNN — — US prosecutors asked a federal judge to detain former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried over allegations of witness-tampering.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
T-Mobile rolls out ultrafast 5G capable of 3.3Gbps, first in a few US markets for Samsung Galaxy S23 users only, then nationwide in “the coming weeks” — / T-Mobile's new wireless tech is live in a few markets and will be available nationally in ‘weeks.’
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 hands-on: essentially the same displays and some nice upgrades, but Samsung seems to be wasting its advantage and $1,800 is ludicrous — Even with a new hinge, a brighter display and improved multitasking, the Z Fold's rivals are catching up.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA warns US federal agencies to secure their systems against an Ivanti flaw that's been exploited as a zero-day to hack Norway's government systems — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned U.S. federal agencies today to secure their systems …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: the California AG is investigating Tesla, seeking information from customers and ex-employees about Autopilot safety issues and advertising complaints — - The California attorney general is investigating Tesla, CNBC has learned, seeking information from customers …
More: The Verge, Wccftech, MarketWatch, and Los Angeles Times
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Z Flip5, offering a larger 3.4" cover screen, up from 1.9" on the Z Flip 4, a new hinge, 256GB storage, and more for the same $999 — The Motorola Razr Plus' reign as the best flip phone might be short-lived. — The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is officially here …
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Twitter: @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @spercharged, @samifathi_, @techkingmike, @richontech, @therealspiky, @raywongy, and @ishanagarwal24. Forums: r/gadgets
| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Dish partners with Amazon to sell a Boost Infinite postpaid wireless plan with unlimited talk, text, and data services at $25/month for Amazon Prime subscribers — Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is partnering with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) to sell wireless postpaid service plans through its platform …
More: Android Authority, The Information, Boost Infinite, The Verge, PCMag, Fierce Wireless, BGR, and PhoneArena
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
The Overture Maps Foundation, formed by Meta, Microsoft, AWS, and TomTom, releases its first dataset with 59M “points of interest” donated by Meta and Microsoft — - A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AWS debuts HealthScribe, an AI-powered tool to summarize patient visits, and is working with partners rather than selling it directly to hospitals and doctors — Amazon Web Services is unveiling AI services for doctors, business analysis and chatbots as it aims for Microsoft and Google
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May should serve as a wake-up call to fediverse users and hosts to protect their privacy — We're in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
More: PCMag and TechCrunch
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, an open-source text-to-image model that can yield 1MP resolution images “in seconds” in multiple aspect ratios — AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
More: Stability AI, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Decoder, and Unite.AI
| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q2 revenue of ~$47.21B, a 22% YoY drop and below analyst expectations of ~$47.7B, and operating profit of ~$525M, a 95% YoY drop — - Samsung is the world's largest maker of dynamic random-access memory chips, which are found in consumer devices such as smartphones and computers.
More: SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Reuters, Bloomberg, Samsung Newsroom, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Collaborative Robotics, founded by former Amazon Robotics VP Brad Porter to build a new type of collaborative robot, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia — A year after unveiling Collaborative Robotics, Brad Porter is still playing it close to the vest. He's not ready show off … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: CrowdStrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic, a security posture management platform for cloud services, for between $200M and $300M — It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that CrowdStrike … | Bloomberg: |
As droughts spread across Spain, the US, and elsewhere, communities are battling water-hungry data centers; Meta expects a €1B facility to use 665M liters/year — With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power …
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